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In article <9014@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> saxena@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Virendra K. Saxena) writes:
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>	I rented a Super Nintendo for a couple of days and was totaly amazed 
>by its graphics capabilities.  The question I have is why can the PC not do
>the same things that the SNES can.  The SNES double and triple scrolls with 
>n slow down, and it easily moves large sprites around the screen(street 
>fighter 2 and tmtm 4).  The SNES is based on an 8 bit proccessor, while most 
>pcs this day are based on 32 bit processors.  Why don't we see such high 
>quality games on PCs?  The CPU is definetely powerfull enough, and the 
>resolution is higher then the SNES.

	Sure the CPU is more powerful than a PCs, but look at all the
other support chips a SNES or Genesis has! The PC has no hardware for
sprites. The PC has no background music non-cpu interventionist music
players. Everything has to be done by the CPU.

	Now if you take another machine, like... say an Amiga? Then
you've got some serious competition... :)

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